I am the miserable-evil-tyrant-owner of
JavaRanch.
I started this joint because I had the need to express my opinions on a
java style guide. Later, I added some
programming pearls and some
java forums.
Just a wacky thing. Bla bla bla about Java, and lots of folks showed up!
More recently, I've gone on a tirade about unit testing and wrote
Evil Unit Testing with an emphasis on the importance of vocabulary and how too much functional testing can lead to a brittle project.
I think that design patterns have taken a bad turn probably due to their own popularity. So I wrote a brief bit called
Evil Design Patterns.
When describing diagnostics, I needed to express it in one, big gob, so I wrote
Better Enterprise/Network Monitoring with Component Diagnostics.
I'm nuts about
permaculture. In the early 90's I became obsessed with gardening and all forms of horticulture. In 1994 I gave a presentation on
lawn care and wrote some blurb for the occasion.
More recently I wrote about meeting my hero
Sepp Holzer and pushed a bunch of stuff about
rocket mass heaters out to the mighty youtube.
Lately I've been crusading the use of
cast iron and reducing the panic surrounding
flea control. I've also advocated the use of
diatomaceous earth for all sorts of insect control. My recent article on
raising chickens turned out to be rather controversial.
